I started my time as a volley in a station with two Hahns. An 82 and an 88. With their distintive sounding pipes from the detroit diesels in them... It was VERY hard not to know when one of them was coming down the road. A company called East Penn Fire Apparatus (I believe thats the name) worked out of one of the facilities that was formerly Hahn owned and retained some inventory from them. They eventually performed a rehab/ cab conversion on our 82 that I thought ended up rough looking. Atleast in my humble opinion.
The rust issue I've heard of before... and once again a very humble opinion. As long as the rig is taken care of like it should be the rust is a non-issue. Our rigs stayed cleaned and polished. We washed our rigs after most runs and in the spring time every year we would crawl up under the rigs, scrub them down and spray undercoating where needed. We were taught to have respect for the apparatus we depended on.
The rust issue I've heard of before... and once again a very humble opinion. As long as the rig is taken care of like it should be the rust is a non-issue. Our rigs stayed cleaned and polished. We washed our rigs after most runs and in the spring time every year we would crawl up under the rigs, scrub them down and spray undercoating where needed. We were taught to have respect for the apparatus we depended on.
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